Charlotte van Pallandt

Charlotte Dorothée van Pallandt (24 September 1898 – 30 July 1997) was a Dutch noblewoman, painter and sculptor.

Biography She was born in Arnhem to a wealthy Pallandt family, belonging an old Dutch nobility, and grew up in Schaarsbergen with her three sisters and a brother.

In 1910 her older sister died of peritonitis and her family moved to the Hague in 1913 and sent her to a boarding school in London, where she studied at the Ealing School of Art.

On 18 September 1919 she married Joachim Adolph Zeyger, Count of Recteren-Limpurg (1893-1943) and settled with him in Bern, though they divorced in 1924.

After her divorce she moved to Lausanne and traveled with a friend to Paris, where she became a pupil of André Lhote in 1926 and was heavily influenced by his Cubism. She also made portraits of Queen Juliana, Peter Scharoff, Adriaan Roland Holst, Fred Carasso, Ro Mogendorff and Albert Termote. In 1963 she was awarded the title Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau and in 1968 her portrait of Queen Wilhelmina was unveiled in Rotterdam, which was later reordered for The Hague and Museum de Fundatie in Heino. In 1973 she was honored again with the title "Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau".

She died in Noordwijk. The "Charlotte van Pallandt-prijs", awarded by the Charlotte van Pallandt Foundation, is a yearly prize for promising young sculptors.